Hose supporter



Get. 28 1924.

1 HOSE SUPPORTER Filed May 24 192 ,513,221 P. COHEN Patented (lot. 23, 1924. I

ZPIHILIP COHEN, OF BUFFALO, YORK.

HOSE surroamnn.

Applicationfifled May 24, 1923. Serial: No; 641,163.

To all whom it mag/concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIPCOHEN, a ,citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo,

in the county of Erie and State of New fort to the wearer and which is so constructs ed that liability to slippage of the same and the hose is prevented.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side view of the garter in its applied position. Figure 2 is a front View thereof. Figure 3 is a face View of the garter removed from the leg. Figure 4 isa front View of a modified form of garter in its applied position.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views. p

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 13, inclusive, the same consists of a main portion or band of non-elastic material, such as leather, adapted to encircle the rear and adjoining sides of the constricted portion of the calf 11 in a forwardly inclined direction, and a substantially hori zontal elastic portion or strip 12extending laterally from one end of said main portion and arranged to engage the front or shin of the leg. At the junction of the main portion 10 with the elastic portion 12 is a tab 13 to the upright edges of which the opposing ends of these portions are securely fastened, as by stitching, while a similar'tab 14 is secured to the other end of said elastic portion. The garter is detachably connected to the leg of the wearer by means of suitable interlocking devices 15, 16 secured to the tab 14 and to the free end of the main garter portion, respectively. The latter may be provided with a friction slide-loop 17 for adjusting the length of the garter to suit the leg of the wearer. 7

Depending from the substantially upright portions of the tabs 13, 14 and preferably at an obtuse angle thereto, are integral supports or extensions 18, 19, respectively, to which the garment-clasps 20 are fastened.

The length of the elastic strip is such that the garmentfclja'spsi lie substantially onoppoq I site sides of the front portion of the leg and the same. converge downwardly at an acute angle to said strip in the manner shown in Fig. 2. The clasp-support 18 of the tab 13 is, .by preference, in line with and practically forms a continuation of the main garter band 10, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The clasp-support 19 of the other tab is inclined in the opposite direction and at substantially the same angle to the vertical as the companion clasp-.support, so that whenthe garter is applied to the leg, said support 19 likewise forms a continuation of the garter T NT j QF F I band in the direction of'its inclination rela-- tive to the leg, as shown in Fig. 2.

By this construction and arrangement, a

garter is produced in which a straight up- Y 7 ward and rearward pull on opposite sides of the front portion of the hose is effected, the-pull radiating in a substantially straight line from the constrictedportion of the calf to the fastening point of the garter with the hose. The elastic strip 12, aside from retaining the: garter in its properpposition on the leg of the wearer, maintains the clasptions, downward slippage of the garter and the hose onitheleg being resisted by the com-' bined gripping action afiorded by said strip and the angular disposition of the band and supports 18, 19 in their correct relative posi- 1 In order to cause the band 10' toconform to the shape of the leg and to lie' flatly against the same, it is slightlybowed or curved in the direction of its length, as

shown in Fig. 3, to form a concave lower edge 22 and a convex upper edge 23.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4, the garter is provided with a single hose fasvtenerz24 whichfis connected to the tab 25 secured to the free'end of the elastic strip 12.

I claim as my invention;

1. A garter, comprising a pair of spaced tabs having downwardly-converging portions for receiving garment fasteners, the

lower ends. of said tabs being disconnected,

anv elastic member joined at its ends to. the upper ends of said tabs, a leg-encircling band connected at one end to one of'said tabs, and'means for detachably connecting the other end of said bandwith the other.

i. a I at? nsiierseela'stic strip adapted to overlie in the applied position thereof and always maintained in the same relative converging position regardless of the degree of expansion or contraction of the elastic member.

2. A garter, comprising a pair of tabs each including a snbstantiallyupright portion and, an obtusely-disp0sed depending ref receivin a garment fastener,

shin tithes-eater andc'onnected at its ends to the upright portions of said tabs, the depending portions of the latter converging downwardly and spaced apart at their lower ends to lie on the opposite sides of the weare'rs shin, and a leg-encircling band fastened at one end to the upright portion of one of the tabs and detachably connected to the corresponding portion of the other tab, the point of attachment of the fasteners with the'garn ent being in line with the leg-encircling band in its applied position. PHILIP COHEN. 

